NASA issued an alert on the asteroid 2019 VU5, a near-Earth object, which is going to pass dangerously close to Earth today.

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

Previous observations suggested that Ceres was less than 30% ice, and its craters were thought to imply that the dwarf planet ...

In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu ... opening a window into its earliest days about 4.6 billion years ago. The Ryugu sample is small, only about 5.4 grams ...

It is expected to make its closest approach to Earth in March 2025, coming within approximately 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) of our planet1. This asteroid was first detected by ...

On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...

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Vesta, the second biggest member of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has existed for 4.5 billion years with an utter lack of atmosphere — so, any water the asteroid harbored on its ...

This asteroid will fly by Earth at a distance of 4.2 million miles on October 26, 2024. Like TB2, it is considered “potentially hazardous,” but its path poses no threat to our planet. Researchers aim ...

Until now, 6% of meteorites had been identified ( via their compositions) as coming from the moon, Mars or Vesta, which is one of the largest objects in the main asteroid belt. Where the other 94% ...